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Erin Graham

i installed vista home premium upgrade and i dont want it installed right
now( too many bugs) anyways if i want to format i should only have to push
control + F11 when it boots up and it will give me a menu to format and have
xp installed, but it wont let me any more does anyone know how to format a
pc with out a floppy drive?

any help would be great

Thanks
 
Erin said:
i installed vista home premium upgrade and i dont want it installed right
now( too many bugs) anyways if i want to format i should only have to push
control + F11 when it boots up and it will give me a menu to format and have
xp installed, but it wont let me any more does anyone know how to format a
pc with out a floppy drive?

any help would be great

Thanks
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By purchasing a floppy drive. Might set you back five bucks. Most
motherboards still support them.

Alias
 
Hi,

You already used the upgrade, right? Vista overwrote Dell's custom
mbr/bootloader with its own code. This is why you cannot access the menu
anymore. Contact Dell for assistance in recovering access to the XP recovery
boot menu.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Go into the BIOs and tell it to boot off the CD-ROM drive. Is that what you
are asking?

Respectfully,
Jonathan Morningstar
 
No, he probably doesn't have the XP recovery CD.
Vendors like Dell and HP are no longer including those
with a new system.

Gary VanderMolen
 
I'm A Girl not a guy :)


Gary VanderMolen said:
No, he probably doesn't have the XP recovery CD.
Vendors like Dell and HP are no longer including those
with a new system.

Gary VanderMolen
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Ms. Erin,
Do you have an XP CD? If you do, just make it so your boot cycle looks at
the CD-Rom drive and you can boot from the XP CD.

Respectfully,

Mr. Jonathan
 
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